Transformer Oil May Have Caused
Recent Dioxin Food Scare in Belgium

HEESTERT, Belgium -- Investigators still haven't pinpointed how toxic dioxin made its way into Belgian chickens, but fat-melter Jean-Pierre Berton thinks he's solved the mystery.

Belgian officials believe that dioxin-laden oil from an electrical transformer might have been mixed with old cooking oil, a common ingredient in chicken feed. What they don't know is just how that transformer oil got into the cooking oil, triggering one of...